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Yes thats right I want to keep a copy of the contact data such as name, company, address that is contained in the CiviCRM contact record in Drupal Profile fields. Most examples i find work the other way - i.e. from drupal to civicrm - which i think is easier, but just not possible for us.

This is a hack to enable me to use the salesforce API module to reflect changes between our CiviCRM based membership system and our core Salesforce.com CRM (This is just a "have to do" for us.) This salesforce module cannot see the civicrm datafields.

Anyone recommend where to start here - I think i need to develop a custom module (it will be my first...) as I can't see anything out-there that does this? Probably based around the hook_civicrm_post hook.

It gets complicated as the user making the change in civicrm may be a local administrator and therefore the user$ object may not be set correctly at the time of posting - therefore it needs to do direct databse calls.

Any help or examples greatfully appreciated as this is quite a challenge as my php knowledge is non-existent.

To summarise - just an example of how to update a user profile programatically with civicrm user data (but you cant assume the logged in user is the one doing the change!)

err... help!